Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix empty version number when building outside of a git repo

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 03:06:06PM -0400, Will Chandler escreveu:
> On 29 Sep 2022, at 6:09, John Garry wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm... maybe someone would want to customise PERF-VERSION-FILE for their own distro. Not sure. But then fiddling with PERF-VERSION-FILE might break the parsing so...I guess not.
> 
> Yeah, seems like a bad idea. Doing a quick search, Void Linux does seem to be
> trying to set a custom version string in their build script[0], but I don't
> think passing PERF_VERSION as an argument to make has worked since 2013 with
> 3cecaa200227 ("perf tools: Do not include PERF-VERSION-FILE to Makefile, 2013-01-16").
> 
> [0] https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/fdb3515c33f2bb997392ea6992e6bbb82c4376c5/srcpkgs/linux-tools/template#L56
> 
> > BTW, is there any other method of building the perf code not considered? So far I know:
> > a. in git tree
> > b. perf-tar-src-pkg
> > c. tarball
> 
> Those are all that come to mind for me as well.
> 
> Let me know if you'd like me to re-roll the patch using the pre-7572733b8499
> approach.

Discussion is going well, proceed, reach a conclusion and from what I'm
seeing, I'll just have to apply it 8-)

- Arnaldo